Rumi

Rumi has a way with words, and explains things in simple terms that makes life easier to understand. I like his comparison of different experiences of life to the stages of life. From embryo all the way to the hunter, both searching for very different things based on their needs in life. While the hunter has gone through all the stages of nourishment through the blood, consumption of milk, consumption of solids, a search of wisdom, and finally search of more invisible game, the embryo has only known the nourishment from the blood. The hunter has experienced the womb, the wobbly first years of an infant, the lessons of childhood, the search for wisdom as an adult to finally trying to discover the "invisible game": his purpose in life or soul searching. To tell an infant "'The world outside is vast and intricate. There are wheatfields and mountain passes, and orchards in bloom. At night there are millions of galaxies, and in sunlight the beauty of friends dancing at a wedding.'" They have no concept of any of this, because their experience is limited. They claim that "You must be hallucinating."